Dr. Karim Youssef, LL.M.; J.S.D.
Head of Middle East Arbitration
Phone +20 100 661 4444
E-mail kyy@amereller.com
Office
Cairo
Degrees
Yale Law School
Doctor of the Science of Law (J.S.D.), 2008
LL.M., 2002
Paris 1 University (Sorbonne)
D.E.A. in Private and International Law, 2001
Maitrise, 2000
Cairo University, Law School
D.E.S., Private Law, 2000
Current & Previous Positions
Associate Professor of Private and International Law, Cairo University (1999-present)
Counsel, Cairo Regional Centre for International Commercial Arbitration (2007-2008)
Practice Areas
International Arbitration and Litigation, International Law, International Investment Law.
Languages
Arabic, English and French.
Publications
Inter alia: Consent in Context: Fulfilling the Promise of International Arbitration, Multiparty, Multi-contract and Non-contract Arbitration, West, 2009, (Preface by Jan Paulsson);
The Limits of Consent: The Right or Obligation to Arbitrate of Non-Signatories in Group of Companies, in B. Hanotiau and E. Schwartz (Eds.), Multiparty Arbitration, Dossiers of the ICC Institute of World Business Law, No.7, 2010, pp. 71-109
The Death of Inarbitrability in Loukas Mistelis and Stavros Brekoulakis (Eds.), Arbitrability: International and Comparative Perspectives, Kluwer Law International, 2009, pp. 47-67
The Independence of International Arbitrators: An Arbitrators Perspective, ICC Intl. Court of Arb. Bull., 2007 Special Supplement, 2008 (with Professor. Ahmed S. El-Kosheri).
Member
Board of Directors of the DIFC-LCIA Arbitration Centre, ICC Commission on Arbitration, Comite’ Francais de l’Arbitrage (CFA), Association Francaise de l’Arbitrage (AFA), Association Suisse de l’Arbitrage (ASA), Board of Reporters of the Institute for Transnational Arbitration (ITA) (for Egypt), Editorial Board of the Journal of Arab Arbitration
Address
Mena Associates
In Association with
Amereller – Rechtsanwälte
GIC Tower
21, Soliman Abaza Street, Mohandessin
Cairo, Egypt
